William Edward Leuchtenburg (born September 28, 1922 in Ridgewood, New
York) is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] He is a leading
scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Contents

1 Career
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links

Career[edit]
Leuchtenburg was born in New York City,[2] and received his B.A.
degree in 1943 from Cornell University, where he was inducted into the
Phi Beta KappaPhi Beta Kappa Society. He later received his Ph.D. from Columbia
University in 1951.[3]
He won the 2007
North Carolina Award for Literature.[4]
He is a past president of the American Historical Association, the
Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American
Historians.
Eric FonerEric Foner is the only other historian to claim that
distinction.
Bibliography[edit]
Leuchtenburg is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century
history,[5] including the Bancroft Prize-winning Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963), a volume in the New American
Nation series co-edited by his mentor
Henry Steele Commager and
Richard B. Morris. His books include:

Flood Control Politics: The Connecticut River Valley Problem,
1927–1950 (1953)
The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–32 (1958) ISBN 978-0-226-47371-0
The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies
of a People (Introduction) (1961)
The LIFE
HistoryHistory of the United States, Volume 11: 1933–1945 – New
Deal and Global War (1963)
The LIFE
HistoryHistory of the United States, Volume 12: From 1945 – The
Great Age of Change (1963)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963) online
The New Deal: A Documentary
HistoryHistory (1968)
Growth of the American Republic (2 vols.) with Samuel Eliot Morison
and
Henry Steele Commager (1969)
A Troubled Feast: American Society Since 1945 (1973)
New Deal and Global War (1974)
The Growth of the American Republic (Volume I) with Samuel Eliot
Morison and
Henry Steele Commager (1980)
A Concise
HistoryHistory of the American Republic (Single Volume) with Samuel
Eliot Morison and
Henry Steele Commager (1983)
In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan (1989; fourth
edition, subtitled From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, 2009)
The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932 (The Chicago
HistoryHistory of American
Civilization) (1993)
The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of
Roosevelt (1996)
The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (1997)
American Places: Encounters with
HistoryHistory (editor) (2000)
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Robert
H. Jackson et al. (2004)
The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman,
Lyndon B. Johnson (2005)
The Executive Branch (2006)
Herbert Hoover (The American Presidents Series) (2006)
The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton (2015)